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ciscentrismsucks:
Whoa, whoa, hold the phone. Are you a cis person answering a question about transgender people? If you are, you need to take a fucking step back and redirect this question to someone who knows what they are talking about, because you clearly do not.
First of all, don’t you dare, don’t you fucking dare ”technically” me this or “biologically” me that. If someone considers themselves female, they are female. If someone considers themselves male, they are male. You do not get to decide someone’s gender based on their hormone levels or what is between their legs, ok? You just fucking don’t.
If your friend considers themselves female until they start physically transition, that’s fine. That’s their call. But guess what? Not every transgender person is the same. You do not get to say “all pre-op transgender people are their assigned gender” just because you have one friend who says that it’s ok for them.
And just where the fuck do you get off dictating who falls into the binary and who doesn’t? “In a way [transitioned people] do fall out of the gender binary”? Um, no, let me fix that for you: Anyone who identifies outside the gender binary is outside the gender binary. Anyone who identifies with the gender binary is of the binary. Is that clear enough for you?
Bottom line: cis people need to stop answering questions about trans* people. If someone comes to you, cis bloggers, asking for information on trans* people, tell them to go ask a trans* person (who has expressed willingness to answer such questions) or better yet to go fucking google it because chances are their question has been answered before by someone who knows what they are talking about.
WHOA HO HO ANSWERED BY A LESBIAN WHAT A LICENSE. I bet you feel entitled.
The most important thing to take from this is to move toward eradication of the “my friend identifies as [blank], so all [blank] people [do this thing].”
There is no universal experience. Not for any group of people. You would never say, “Well, my straight friend really hates her middle name, so straight people really don’t like their middle names.” Why is it suddenly okay to do this for the socially otherized groups?
1.) If someone asks you about your experience as a [blank] person, should you choose to respond, make sure you specify that your experience is not that of every other [blank] person.
2.) If someone asks you about the experiences of a group of people that you do not identify as, DON’T RESPOND. Direct that person to someone of that group who would be willing to give an answer, or send them to Google because come on guys it’s the internet do some research it’s so easy it’s painful.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgzjp8sUFm1qfpe24o1_500.png)
Whoa, whoa, hold the phone. Are you a cis person answering a question about transgender people? If you are, you need to take a fucking step back and redirect this question to someone who knows what they are talking about, because you clearly do not.
First of all, don’t you dare, don’t you fucking dare ”technically” me this or “biologically” me that. If someone considers themselves female, they are female. If someone considers themselves male, they are male. You do not get to decide someone’s gender based on their hormone levels or what is between their legs, ok? You just fucking don’t.
If your friend considers themselves female until they start physically transition, that’s fine. That’s their call. But guess what? Not every transgender person is the same. You do not get to say “all pre-op transgender people are their assigned gender” just because you have one friend who says that it’s ok for them.
And just where the fuck do you get off dictating who falls into the binary and who doesn’t? “In a way [transitioned people] do fall out of the gender binary”? Um, no, let me fix that for you: Anyone who identifies outside the gender binary is outside the gender binary. Anyone who identifies with the gender binary is of the binary. Is that clear enough for you?
Bottom line: cis people need to stop answering questions about trans* people. If someone comes to you, cis bloggers, asking for information on trans* people, tell them to go ask a trans* person (who has expressed willingness to answer such questions) or better yet to go fucking google it because chances are their question has been answered before by someone who knows what they are talking about.
WHOA HO HO ANSWERED BY A LESBIAN WHAT A LICENSE. I bet you feel entitled.
The most important thing to take from this is to move toward eradication of the “my friend identifies as [blank], so all [blank] people [do this thing].”
There is no universal experience. Not for any group of people. You would never say, “Well, my straight friend really hates her middle name, so straight people really don’t like their middle names.” Why is it suddenly okay to do this for the socially otherized groups?
1.) If someone asks you about your experience as a [blank] person, should you choose to respond, make sure you specify that your experience is not that of every other [blank] person.
2.) If someone asks you about the experiences of a group of people that you do not identify as, DON’T RESPOND. Direct that person to someone of that group who would be willing to give an answer, or send them to Google because come on guys it’s the internet do some research it’s so easy it’s painful.
(via autumn-and-eve)
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CisCentrismSucks elaborate as
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This. Also, I need to add that anyone who thinks the education system isn’t in the shitter is deluding themselves.
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Fine. Keep yelling.
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(chopped off most of the conversation so I can just address this here) Ok, first of all, you really think anon was...
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^ THIS. FUCKING. THIS. IF YOU ARE NOT TRANSGENDER OR IN ANY WAY GENDERQUEER, YOU DO NOT FUCKING KNOW. STEP THE FUCK OFF....
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